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 Translations niceties [ˈnaɪsɪtɪz] npl → detalles mpl niceties [ˈnaɪsɪtɪz] npl → subtilités fpl niceties [ˈnaɪsɪtɪz] nice npl the niceties → die Feinheiten pl niceties [ˈnaɪsɪtɪz] npl → finezze fpl |
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They perplex their judgments by a most undue attention to little niceties of personal appearance, habits, disposition, and other trifles which concern nobody but the lady herself. The unmanly chuckle always came, I found, when the poor lady dropped her babe, but the whole thing entranced him; he tried to keep his excitement down by taking huge draughts of water; he forgot all his niceties of conduct; he sat in holy rapture with the toy between his paws, took it to bed with him, ate it in the night, and searched for it so longingly next day that I had to go out and buy him the man with the scythe. Creeds mathematically precise, and hair-splitting niceties of doctrine, are absolutely necessary for the salvation of some kinds of souls, but surely the charity, the purity, the unselfishness that are in the hearts of men like these would save their souls though they were bankrupt in the true religion--which is ours. |
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